Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong brought forth his tenth Divine Form and considered how to complete his Great Dao by finding opponents to fight. He took control of the Lingbao Array Diagram and claimed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords as Dao Yi gathered forces in the Celestial Venerable Wheel Sea.

• Zhou Tong formed the God-Striking Stone Divine Form and began fusing it with his nine-in-one Divine Form in his Wheel Sea.
• Zhou Tong concluded that battle was needed to perfect his Forbidden Domain, but decided he would have to create his own opponents.
• Zhou Tong sacrificed more than a hundred Saint Weapons to awaken and control the Lingbao Array Diagram.
• Zhou Tong returned to the Celestial Venerable Wheel Sea and recognized that Dao Yi had gathered many forces for another attack on the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong used the Array Diagram to claim the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and sacrificed more Saint Weapons to bind them closer to himself.

Zhou Tong refined the Vajra Ring by removing its Ten Fiends profound meanings and considered using the Divine Emperor Scripture and the Reincarnation Mirror to awaken its remaining Immortal Gold profound meanings. The ring met one requirement for becoming a Quasi-Emperor Artifact, while Zhou Tong contemplated a new cultivation path that could allow weapons to prove the Dao.

• Zhou Tong decided to upgrade the Vajra Ring in preparation for possible Imperial Weapons and a Quasi-Emperor arriving in the Divine Domain.
• He forged several ornaments and other artifacts from Immortal Materials, then transferred eight Ten Fiends profound meanings from the Vajra Ring into them.
• After half a month, the eight new artifacts became Saint Weapons, and the purified Vajra Ring's ten Deities reunited into one humanoid Deity resembling Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong concluded that removing the Ten Fiends profound meanings had fulfilled one requirement for advancing the Vajra Ring into a Quasi-Emperor Artifact, but the Immortal Gold profound meanings still needed to unite.
• He considered adapting the Divine Emperor Scripture's reincarnation principle, with help from the Reincarnation Mirror, to awaken Radiant White Gold and fuse all nine Immortal Gold profound meanings.

Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to transform the Vajra Ring into a Phoenix Blood Red Gold weapon, then sent it to undergo a Quasi-Emperor tribulation. After studying the ring’s awakened Immortal Gold profundity, he halted its advancement and returned to the Divine Domain to prepare for his own path to Quasi-Emperor.

• Zhou Tong reincarnated the Vajra Ring as Phoenix Blood Red Gold and sent it to reach Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven.
• The Vajra Ring underwent its tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier, overcame the weapon imprints in the lightning, and returned successfully after half a month.
• Zhou Tong sensed the Vajra Ring’s Quasi-Emperor-level Immortal Gold profundity and gained insight into how the paths to immortality were interconnected.
• Zhou Tong halted the Hegemonic Bell’s deeper fusion of Immortal Gold profundities until after he proved the Dao.
• Zhou Tong stopped the Vajra Ring just before it advanced to Quasi-Emperor Eighth Heaven, then returned to the Divine Domain to prepare for his own advancement.

Zhou Tong entered God-Demon Ridge to collect the God-Demon Liquid and found Ji Zi beside Void Great Emperor’s coffin. After discussing the coming darkness, Zhou Tong revealed an imperial aura that shocked Ji Zi.

• Zhou Tong left a Vajra Ring double to oversee the Divine Domain and entered God-Demon Ridge as the God-Demon Liquid began to emerge.
• Zhou Tong passed through the spatial pressure surrounding Void Great Emperor’s coffin after calling out to Yellow Emperor.
• Zhou Tong found Ji Zi near the coffin and saw that Ji Zi’s cultivation had advanced close to the Great Sage realm.
• Zhou Tong criticized Ji Zi for relying on the Void origin and warned that he was too weak to face the darkness coming in more than a hundred years.
• Ji Zi challenged Zhou Tong, who released a trace of imperial aura and left Ji Zi shocked.

Zhou Tong gathered God-Demon Liquid with Ji Zi and transformed the Divine Domain’s Power of Faith into blessings for its people, completing a safer cycle of faith. He then planned to protect the resource-rich ancient star from the periodic surges of Five Elements essence energy.

• Zhou Tong explained that the Divine Domain’s God-Demon Liquid harvest lasted thirty years every ten thousand years, and Ji Zi learned that Zhou Tong would share some of it with him and the Ji Family.
• Zhou Tong used Array Patterns and a Green-Gold Tripod to gather God-Demon Liquid while Ji Zi watched.
• Zhou Tong reversed the Divine Domain’s Power of Faith into a rain of light that benefited its people, and Ji Zi recognized what he was doing.
• The Divine Domain’s people felt their illnesses weaken and their cultivation improve, while their worship stabilized the newly balanced faith system.
• Zhou Tong decided to arrange source arrays to protect the ancient star from the ten-thousand-year surges of Five Elements essence energy.

Zhou Tong sent his Kunpeng True Fate into reincarnation with a strand of Profound Yellow Mother Qi and sensed that it had been born in the Chaotic Ancient Years with slightly greater ability to affect the past. He decided not to risk another reincarnation before attaining the Dao and began considering a cultivation scripture for the Hegemon Body lineage.

• Zhou Tong sensed that his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and Thunder Emperor True Fates were in the distant past, untouched by karma.
• Zhou Tong sent his Kunpeng True Fate and a strand of Profound Yellow Mother Qi through the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the Kunpeng True Fate had been born in the Chaotic Ancient Years and could interfere with a few karmic threads there.
• Zhou Tong concluded that he should not send out another True Fate before attaining the Dao because he could cultivate at most nine through the Divine Emperor Scripture.
• Zhou Tong considered creating a foundational scripture for future Hegemon Bodies, with a Divine Guidance and a Myriad Spirits Diagram for cultivating Divine Forms.

After three years of failing to break through, Zhou Tong created a powerful Demonic Self from his own Quasi-Emperor Essence Blood, a god-demon’s Dao, and his killing intent. The Demonic Self attacked him, and Zhou Tong began a life-and-death battle to advance his Battle Immortal Path.

• Zhou Tong admitted that he had found no way to break through, and Ji Zi warned that his Battle Immortal Path needed worthy opponents.
• Zhou Tong drew on the Great Daos preserved in God-Demon Ridge and used his blood and divine sense to recreate a god-demon.
• Zhou Tong explained that the god-demon was his Demonic Self, formed from his killing thought, and Ji Zi warned that it could kill him and take his place.
• The Demonic Self unleashed terrifying Emperor’s might and charged at Zhou Tong, while the Void Great Emperor’s coffin kept the force contained.
• Zhou Tong summoned Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s Array Diagram to create a battlefield and fought the Demonic Self with his incomplete Forbidden Domain.

Zhou Tong fought and defeated a Demon God formed from his Essence Blood, then used successive battles against groups of Demon Gods to refine his Dao and Forbidden Domain. Watching him, Ji Zi became convinced that Zhou Tong had the bearing of an invincible Emperor.

• Zhou Tong shattered the one-horned Demon God's Dao, endured its Immortal Phoenix-powered recovery, and blasted it apart, reclaiming the Essence Blood.
• Zhou Tong withdrew the Lingbao Array Diagram and meditated for seven days while Ji Zi watched and reflected on his strength.
• Zhou Tong revived three Demon Gods and defeated them after a fierce battle, then meditated for half a month to perfect his Dao.
• Zhou Tong fought five Demon Gods while Ji Zi concluded that Zhou Tong had reached an extreme of invincibility on the Emperor's Path.

Zhou Tong spent thirty years in seclusion at God-Demon Ridge perfecting his Forbidden Domain while his Vajra Ring defended the Divine Domain from attacks by several clans and their Imperial Weapons. After the Vajra Ring repelled the Phoenix-Winged Golden Halberd again, Blood Phoenix Mountain revealed a shocking sign of Zhou Tong’s power: imperial might.

• Zhou Tong sealed God-Demon Ridge with Source Technique and the Group Character Secret, then spent thirty years drawing on its god-demon Great Daos to refine his Forbidden Domain.
• Ji Zi advanced to the ninth level of the Saint King realm, while Zhou Tong tracked events in the Divine Domain through his connection with the Vajra Ring.
• The Vajra Ring, wielding the Sacred Spirit Stone Token in Zhou Tong’s form, repeatedly repelled the Myriad Dragon Bell, Golden Mace, and Phoenix-Winged Golden Halberd, earning Zhou Tong fame across the Divine Domain.
• The Phoenix-Winged Golden Halberd attacked again, but Zhou Tong’s Vajra Ring struck it back beyond the Divine Domain despite Blood Phoenix Mountain having prepared to counter the Soldier Character Secret.
• Blood Phoenix Mountain’s Great Sage revealed that Zhou Tong’s latest clash had displayed imperial might, leaving observers wondering whether he had become a Quasi-Emperor.

The Golden Clan, Myriad Dragon Nest, and Blood Phoenix Mountain prepared to join forces against Zhou Tong, but two Quasi-Emperors arrived and summoned them. Elsewhere, Dao Yi decided to destroy the Divine Domain and leave rather than risk confronting the new arrivals.

• The Great Sages of Blood Phoenix Mountain, the Golden Clan, and Myriad Dragon Nest discussed the threat of Zhou Tong and planned to gather more Imperial Weapons and allies.
• Four Golden Snake Lords and a Stone Man arrived, announcing that the Tengshe Great Emperor and a Quasi-Emperor of the Holy Spirit Lineage had summoned the Imperial Clans’ leaders.
• Dao Yi’s Dao Protector told him that two Quasi-Emperors and several Ancient Emperor Weapons had entered the conflict.
• Dao Yi ordered his Dao Protector to destroy the Divine Domain and leave, choosing to frustrate Zhou Tong rather than remain and gain nothing.

After thirty years of battling the gods and demons in God-Demon Ridge, Zhou Tong perfected his Forbidden Domain and named his self-created art the Battle Immortal Art. He crushed the remaining gods and demons, then turned toward the Divine Domain.

• Zhou Tong fought through the god-and-demon runes in God-Demon Ridge until only fifteen opponents remained, while Ji Zi watched.
• Zhou Tong’s battle intent transformed the Ten Fiend immortal lights into an ocean of blades and perfected his Forbidden Domain.
• Zhou Tong named his perfected Dao the Battle Immortal Art and explained its supreme offensive power.
• Zhou Tong’s battle intent suppressed the remaining gods and demons, and their Essence Blood returned to him as they were destroyed.
• Zhou Tong put away the Lingbao Array Diagram and looked toward the Divine Domain.

Zhou Tong sensed two Quasi-Emperors in the Divine Domain and attacked them before beginning his own Quasi-Emperor tribulation. His single surprise punch destroyed their palace and left the two Quasi-Emperors dodging amid the devastation.

• Zhou Tong told Ji Zi that his body and cultivation were ready for the Quasi-Emperor realm, but he wanted to deal with two Quasi-Emperors he sensed in the Divine Domain first.
• Ji Zi wondered whether Zhou Tong could quell the coming Dark Turmoil and decided to prepare for the Great Sage realm.
• Zhou Tong found the Quasi-Emperors’ stone palace and struck it with a punch powered by the Battle Immortal Art, Kunpeng Extreme Speed, and the Xing Character Secret.
• The Holy Spirit and Tengshe Quasi-Emperors dodged Zhou Tong’s attack as his fist force destroyed the palace and killed the guards and other nearby cultivators.
• Great Sages from the Golden Clan, Myriad Dragon Nest, and Blood Phoenix Mountain used Ancient Emperor Weapons to survive, but Zhou Tong’s punch grievously wounded them.

Zhou Tong confronted the Holy Spirit and Tengshe Quasi-Emperors and the Great Sages seeking to seize the Divine Domain. As Dao Yi’s plan unleashed the Five Elements essence and drew out the Kirin Staff, Zhou Tong trapped all four Ancient Emperor Weapons in Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s killing formation.

• The Holy Spirit and Tengshe Quasi-Emperors recognized Zhou Tong, who had not yet undergone his tribulation, and mocked his incomplete advancement.
• Zhou Tong attacked with the Immortal Slaying Sword, and the Great Sages realized he also possessed Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s Array Diagram.
• The Great Sages tried to flee, but the Five Elements continents erupted with Great Emperor aura and prevented the Imperial Weapons from escaping.
• The Kirin Staff appeared, and Great Sage Yan Qi joined the Great Sages from Myriad Dragon Nest, the Golden Clan, and Blood Phoenix Mountain against Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong deployed the Array Diagram and four Killing Swords, trapping the Kirin Staff, Phoenix-Winged Golden Halberd, Golden Mace, and Myriad Dragon Bell inside the formation.

Zhou Tong fought the Tengshe Quasi-Emperor and the Holy Spirit Quasi-Emperor with the Sacred Spirit Stone Token, while Dao Yi used the Five Elements essence to threaten the Divine Domain. Zhou Tong wounded the Divine Tiger, but the assault on the Divine Domain continued as observers reckoned with his overwhelming strength.

• The Tengshe Quasi-Emperor unleashed his ancestral sword formation, but Zhou Tong countered with the Sacred Spirit Stone Token and sent him flying.
• The Holy Spirit Quasi-Emperor joined the battle, and Zhou Tong blocked the Divine Tiger’s roar with his dragon’s cry as the two Quasi-Emperors attacked him together.
• Dao Yi spotted the Kirin Staff and ordered his protector to draw the Five Elements essence down toward the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong brushed off the threat to the Divine Domain, forced back the Tengshe sword formation, and struck the Divine Tiger hard enough to make it cough blood and fly away.
• Huang Xudao, the Golden Heavenly Maiden, and the Dragon Maiden watched Zhou Tong’s strength with shock and unwillingness.

Zhou Tong stabilized the Divine Domain by using Wu Shi the Great’s Tian Yuan Stone Tablet as the core of an ancient formation, turning the Five Elements impact into nourishment for the ancient star. Dao Yi’s protector sent Dao Yi away and joined the battle, where Zhou Tong attacked the Tengshe Quasi-Emperor with the Demon Emperor’s Ruler and shattered one of his swords.

• Source Heavenly Divine Runes appeared across the Divine Domain, and the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet suppressed the Five Elements impact and stabilized the ancient star.
• Dao Yi’s protector urged him to leave, transferred the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor to himself, and sent Dao Yi away in an array platform.
• The protector charged into the Quasi-Emperor battle as the Divine Tiger and Tengshe Quasi-Emperors reacted excitedly to the armor’s appearance.
• Zhou Tong appeared before the Tengshe Quasi-Emperor and struck with the Demon Emperor’s Ruler, shattering one of the Tengshe Swords.
• Zhou Tong used the Soldier Character Secret to disrupt the remaining sword and the Quasi-Emperor Array Diagram, then suppressed them with the Sacred Spirit Stone Token.

Zhou Tong used the Demon Emperor's Ruler to kill Tengshe Quasi-Emperor and the Sacred Spirit Divine Tiger, then faced Dao Yi's protector and his Dao Tribulation Gold Armor. After Zhou Tong clashed with the Imperial Weapon and took a minor injury, the Divine Domain's people worshiped him, and he used the resulting Power of Faith to stabilize the domain.

• Zhou Tong killed Tengshe Quasi-Emperor with the Demon Emperor's Ruler and destroyed the Sacred Spirit Divine Tiger's White Tiger Dao manifestation before killing the Divine Tiger.
• Zhou Tong collected the Divine Tiger's blood and corpse fragments as Dao Yi's protector arrived in the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor.
• Dao Yi's protector recognized the Demon Emperor's Ruler and attacked Zhou Tong with the armor's golden battle swords.
• Zhou Tong fought back with the damaged Demon Emperor's Ruler and struck the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor with his bare fist, injuring his arm only slightly.
• The Divine Domain's cultivators worshiped Zhou Tong, and he dispersed the gathered Power of Faith to further stabilize the domain.

Zhou Tong defeated Dao Yan the Great's protector in a brutal clash, while the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor escaped. He then entered the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and turned the battle against the Great Sages attacking the Divine Domain.

• Zhou Tong clashed with Dao Yan the Great's protector, who burned his life to awaken the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor and fight at the Quasi-Emperor level.
• Zhou Tong killed the protector, and the Dao Tribulation Gold Armor revived its Deity and fled through a chaotic passage.
• Zhou Tong healed his wounds with the Immortal Sutra and turned toward the unstable Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Great Sages inside the formation celebrated their apparent victory until Zhou Tong struck down the Great Sage wielding the Myriad Dragon Bell with the Sacred Spirit Stone Token.
• Zhou Tong took command of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, stabilized it, and faced the remaining Great Sages.

After settling the Divine Domain, Zhou Tong discovered the Great Emperor Origin that had enabled the Sacred Spirit Stone Tiger to become a Quasi-Emperor and prepared to cross his own tribulation. His prolonged battle against the lightning tribulation continued to temper his body, primordial spirit, and Hegemonic Bell.

• Zhou Tong let the four Ancient Emperor Weapons flee and concluded that his Quasi-Emperor strength had ended the threat to the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong found and absorbed the Great Emperor Origin inside the Sacred Spirit Stone Tiger's corpse.
• Void the Great's coffin emerged from God-Demon Ridge, and Zhou Tong saw Ji Zi leave with the Yellow Emperor.
• Zhou Tong fed Phoenix Blood Red Gold and Quasi-Emperor Artifacts to the Hegemonic Bell, then traveled to a desolate starfield to undergo his tribulation.
• Zhou Tong fought lightning manifestations of Ten Fiends, Imperial Weapons, and ancient Great Emperors for seven days, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered body, primordial spirit, and Hegemonic Bell.

Zhou Tong destroyed his Quasi-Emperor tribulation, reached Third Heaven, and spent years consolidating his power and refining his methods. After deciding to complete the Human Ancient Road before visiting Big Dipper, Earth, and the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star, he remembered one more place he needed to visit first.

• Zhou Tong used the Battle Immortal Art to shatter his lightning tribulation, and the Hegemonic Bell absorbed and refined its power as he advanced to Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven.
• Zhou Tong spent seven days restoring himself, assessed his Azure Heaven True Blood and the Hegemonic Bell’s remaining Phoenix Blood Red Gold, then flew back to the Divine Domain while testing his new strength and Divine Prohibition.
• Zhou Tong returned to the Divine Domain and secluded himself for five years to stabilize his cultivation and review his scripture and Forbidden Domain.
• After leaving seclusion, Zhou Tong decided to finish the Human Ancient Road, then return to Big Dipper and Earth before visiting the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.
• Zhou Tong recalled that he had one other place to visit before beginning those plans.

Zhou Tong met the Holy Imperial Son, who challenged him to a same-level battle to measure the gap between them. Zhou Tong suppressed him in fewer than three moves, leaving their wager unresolved.

• Zhou Tong prepared to explore Lingbao Heavenly Venerate's Dragon Transformation Realm and Immortal Platform Secret Realm before the Holy Imperial Son arrived with the Battle Saint Emperor's weapon.
• The Holy Imperial Son confirmed that Zhou Tong had become a Quasi-Emperor and proposed using the sword Zhou Tong had given him to fight at the same level.
• Zhou Tong wagered the Sacred Spirit Stone Token against borrowing the Battle Staff for a hundred years, and the Holy Imperial Son accepted.
• Zhou Tong sealed his cultivation at the ninth level of Saint King, and the Holy Imperial Son attacked with the Battle Saint Emperor's forbidden secret art.
• Zhou Tong cleaved through the Holy Imperial Son's Dharma body and suppressed his true body with his palm.